listen, i think even the russians themselves find me confusing - i come off as clearly pro-russian at one minute, but then i'm bombastically pro-western and unapologetically anti-american in the next moment. it's a mess of contradictions, if you insist on clearly defined battle lines.

but, i don't. and, history doesn't.

it's really not that complicated - i'm a western leftist that understands the vital role that russia has played in saving and propping up the west. i know - that's heresy.  but, fuck dogma. who saved us from hitler? who saved us from napoleon? who saved us from the mongols and the huns and the turks?

and who will save us from the inevitable chinese fascist warlord that takes a run at it?

fuck, who saved us from the americans?

so, i can be pro-enlightenment and everything that that means in anchoring myself in the french revolution and still realize the vital role that russia has played in world history.

...as the spectrum of francophone movers from degaulle to the situationists did, as well. 

fwiw.